UBC Graduate Research

The Festival of Public Imaginations Alva Arguello, Julieta

Abstract

This project imagines a parallel system of unregulated occupation in Vancouver founded on collective action as a means to create public space that expresses human delights and desires. Current planning practice conspires with architecture and infrastructure to inject predominant ideas of what public space is and should be. In order to propel our city forward, we must suspend conformance to such rules and regulations. The proposition is for an annual festival where participants are encouraged to engage with the participatory building and un-building of public space by having free reign to alter, add, or remove parts of the city. If we harness collective imaginations, the resulting urban fabric would be a medley, patchwork, palimpsest of our shared humanities.

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